They were telling my management that they could support us after EOS. We have skill personnel in keeping the system running and in searching service link (SIS). I was looking for firms that could generate ZAPs as needed and to provide enhancements to z/OS R4 for new devices as IBM announce them. I am not sure what this firm is claiming they can do? But they are telling my management they can provide support?
-----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bruce Black Sent: Thursday, July 28, 2005 7:43 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Third party Maintenance of z/OS R4 after March 2007 > > >I have a third party hardware maintenance firm that is claiming that they >can support z/OS after end of life. Is it possible for a third party to >maintain and support z/OS R4 after the end of support date from IBM of >March 2007? > Depends what they mean by support. Even after EOS, all PTFs for problems identified and fixed before EOS are still available, so they can research problems and identify PTFs to apply. of course if you are at all skilled at using IBMLINK, you can do the same. Once a system goes EOS, IBM will generally not issue PTFs for it, even for cases where they could easily do so. A third party would not have access to IBM's source code to assemble modules for PTFs. So many modules are OCO these days, they would not even have access to listings for a lot of code, so there is little chance they could generate zaps. So it isn't clear to me what they could provide that is worth the money, unless you have no sysprog staff to do this work inhouse -- Bruce A. Black Senior Software Developer for FDR Innovation Data Processing 973-890-7300 personal: [EMAIL PROTECTED] sales info: [EMAIL PROTECTED] tech support: [EMAIL PROTECTED] web: www.innovationdp.fdr.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
